Professionally published homebrew games.

[commodorejohn]

That was a hell of a thread-hijacking alright - and nice of AmigaKit to make it all about them, when there's also companies like Psytronik out there. You wouldn't think, given the amount of love that AmigaKit already gets in this community, that they'd have any cause to be jealous and possessive, but there you go. Very classy.

[commodorejohn]

The problem isn't with Amigakit making profit, it's with Amigakit making everything about Amigakit. By all accounts they're a well-run business that supports an underserved community, which is great - however, that does not give them license to ignore basic forum etiquette (and doing so is bad PR, which they ought to understand.)  Besides, if the OP was anything like Cammy's identically-titled thread over on Amibay, it didn't even mention anything about an app store, just discussed the recent increase in commercial publication of retro-homebrew titles and mused on possibilities to promote this kind of thing in the Amiga community. So it's not hard to see that as an obvious threadjack.

[commodorejohn]

Except that Cammy made it about "profiteering" and "filling pockets." I'm not saying you're wrong, however, as I think what you say is true too, but... by calling them out and then "storming out of the room" didn't Cammy achieve the exactly that? Literally hand the hijack over to them? Here we are talking about Amigakit instead of Cammy's original intent. A little counter-productive, me thinks... probably would have been better just to ignore them and let the thread continue as it would have.

I'll let Cammy answer that; my only position here is that, from where I stand, Amigakit's behavior was rude and spotlight-hogging.

[commodorejohn]

Out of curiosity, have Cammy reposted her original post elsewhere?

I checked EAB, but nothing there at girst glance.

Over on Amibay.